connect: use selection parser for tests

[nicholascioli]

This commit uses the JSONSelection parsers in tests to make them more concise.

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• [ ] Documentation[^2] completed
• [ ] Performance impact assessed and acceptable
• Tests added and passing[^3]
  • [x] Unit Tests
  • [ ] Integration Tests
  • [ ] Manual Tests

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[router-perf[bot]]

CI performance tests

• [ ] events_big_cap_high_rate_callback - Stress test for events with a lot of users, deduplication enabled and high rate event with a big queue capacity using callback mode
• [ ] reload - Reload test over a long period of time at a constant rate of users
• [ ] large-request - Stress test with a 1 MB request payload
• [ ] events - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication ENABLED
• [x] const - Basic stress test that runs with a constant number of users
• [x] step - Basic stress test that steps up the number of users over time
• [ ] events_without_dedup_callback - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication DISABLED using callback mode
• [ ] demand-control-instrumented - A copy of the step test, but with demand control monitoring and metrics enabled
• [ ] events_without_dedup - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication DISABLED
• [ ] events_big_cap_high_rate - Stress test for events with a lot of users, deduplication enabled and high rate event with a big queue capacity
• [ ] no-graphos - Basic stress test, no GraphOS.
• [ ] events_callback - Stress test for events with a lot of users and deduplication ENABLED in callback mode
• [ ] xlarge-request - Stress test with 10 MB request payload
• [ ] xxlarge-request - Stress test with 100 MB request payload
• [ ] step-jemalloc-tuning - Clone of the basic stress test for jemalloc tuning
• [ ] step-with-prometheus - A copy of the step test with the Prometheus metrics exporter enabled
• [ ] demand-control-uninstrumented - A copy of the step test, but with demand control monitoring enabled

[nicholascioli]

This will be closed for now, but should be revisited once we have a source-aware query plan.